English subtitles for clip: File:Wikimania 2006 opening plenary Wikiversity.ogg

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The other big thing is going on
that the Board just approved,

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a Wikiversity.

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As most of you know,
Wikiversity has been a project

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under discussion in the Community
for a very long time.

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It went through several revisions
as we really hammered out

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what it should look like,

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what it should be,
what the limitations would be.

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The basic concept of Wikiversity
is that this would be a center.

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Wiki on the web

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for the creation and the use of
free learning materials and activities.

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Wikibooks works on textbooks,
Wikiversity is much broader than that.

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Wikiversity includes
all of the kinds of learning materials

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which would be quizzes,
review materials, tests,

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all kind of different things like that.

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For all age groups, all languages.

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And also, the idea here
is to also host learning community,

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people who are actually trying to learn,
actually have a place to come and interact

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and help each other
figure out how to learn things.

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And we're also going
to be hosting and fostering research

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into how this kind of things
could be used more effectivly.

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This is an example where
there are a lot of interesting things,

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a lot of interesting research projects
that could be funded.

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Where I believe that
with the Foundation maturing work

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actually gonna be able
to significant amount of funding

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to make some interesting things happen,
haven't happened yet online,

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even people dream about it for many years.

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I guess the important thing you need
to know about Wikiversity

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is a six-month beta trial period.

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And we gonna launch it
in three langauges, at first,

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and probably more languages as there
are people interested or get excited.

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So, that's going to launch very soon.

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I'm not exactly sure the date,
but within a month anyway